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• Pandora Hits Some Production Snags, will Miss The Holidays

  
  Tech News Time — Authority: 149
  Concerned for a long-suffering Pandora pre-orderer in you life? Well, you might want to keep them away from sharp knives and their dormant SD card full of rare ROMs for the next few weeks. The device has seemed tantalizingly close in recent months, but new word from the front lines means that we won’t be ...
  3 hours ago

• OpenSource Science?

  
  Greg Laden's Blog — Authority: 668
  If you have not yet read John Wilbanks posts on OpenSource Science, which is a critique of the idea, than you should. Start with this one. There are two more right after that. But they are very long, so by the time you are done reading all three of those, there will probably be a fourth one! Read the comments ...
  9 hours ago

• Ad policies — the year in review

  
  Affiliate Marketing | Affiliate Networks — Authority: 143
  We’ve always said that a top priority for us is making sure that your search results are relevant, useful and safe. Of course, this commitment to a positive search experience extends to the ads you see on Google too. Earlier this week we took a stand to fight Internet scams, and in recent months, we’ve [...]
  14 hours ago

• In/Out Festival Preview, Goodies and Patches from the Artists

  
  Create Digital Music — Authority: 585
  Look! We even like vinyl, too. Lori Ann Napolean aka subk plays as Switchboard Operator tomorrow – and she means it literally. Bleeding edge tech meets arcane tech — not the gramophone, but the switchboard. There’s not really a name for it, but there’s a growing scene around advanced musical performance. Once ...
  14 hours ago

• MHVLUG Hack-a-thon – Saturday Dec 12

  
  Sean's Mental Walkabout — Authority: 118
  As part of our contribution to the Great American Hack-a-thon , MHVLUG will be sponsoring our own local hack-a-thon at SUNY New Paltz tomorrow, Dec 12.  Full details and a map with parking locations are available on our website . This is a casual event where you are encourage to bring your laptop and some ...
  14 hours ago

• 451 CAOS Links 2009.12.11

  
  451 CAOS Theory — Authority: 554
  Sun updates Java platform. Red Hat open sources SPICE. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and Identi.ca “Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have to.” For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL ...
  14 hours ago

• Pandora hits some production snags, will miss the holidays

  
  Engadget — Authority: 847
  Concerned for a long-suffering Pandora pre-orderer in you life? Well, you might want to keep them away from sharp knives and their dormant SD card full of rare ROMs for the next few weeks. The device has seemed tantalizingly close in recent months, but new word from the front lines means that we wont be seeing the ...
  16 hours ago

• Open source was good enough, will non-open source be open enough?

  
  451 CAOS Theory — Authority: 554
  There was a time years ago when open source software in the enterprise often had to be just ‘good enough.’ Over time, use and broader adoption, open source software has now reached the point that it must often be ‘as good or better’ than proprietary alternatives, now typically getting equal consideration ...
  17 hours ago

• Jolicloud pre-beta now available to download, walkthrough now available for viewing

  
  Engadget — Authority: 847
  Lets face it: Chrome OS has been snagging all of the attention in the OS world here lately, but let us not forget about Jolicloud . The Linux-based system, which was designed to be installed onto existing netbooks without much of a fuss, has finally reached its public pre-beta stage. In other words, the 600MB .exe ...
  19 hours ago

• Review of Radian Application Launcher

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 494
  There are plenty of free application launchers out there. Most of them will work fine in a pinch, and I’ve tried so many that I rarely get excited about seeing a new one. The only reason that I tried Radian, was because it had such a unique looking interface. (see the other app launchers we’ve mentioned) ...
  1 day ago

• 5 Essential Thunderbird 3 Extensions to Get Started

  
  Kabatology ~ Open Source, Linux — Authority: 469
  For Windows, Mac and Linux: Mozilla finally freed Thunderbird 3, a major upgrade after 2 years and is already working on Thunderbird 3.1. But this new release has also put out of function (for now) many great Thunderbird extensions. These plug-ins still have to be updated. Those mentioned have been tested and are ...
  1 day ago

• Open for business

  
  Meall Dubh — Authority: 103
  A couple of years ago we came up with a slogan for OpenOffice.org – Open for Business – to get across a couple of messages: OpenOffice.org software may be used by commercial businesses completely free of any licence fees OpenOffice.org software is also a great platform to build businesses around – ...
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• Sun Releases 3 Java Upgrades as EU Begins Closed-Door Merger Hearing

  
  E-Commerce Blog — Authority: 152
  Despite plunging revenues due to the resistance of European regulators to its pending acquisition by Oracle, Sun Microsystems has rolled out enhancements to three key products in its Java platform. The upgrades focus on providing more flexibility to developers. Much of the new functionality has likely been in the ...
  1 day ago

• The case against the case against Oracle-MySQL

  
  451 CAOS Theory — Authority: 554
  Matt Asay is right, in my opinion, to point out the inherent bias in the case Monty Widenius et al have made against Oracle’s potential ownership of MySQL. I would go further, however, in stating that the case being made against Oracle is flawed by the fact that it is so self-serving. For instance: I previously ...
  1 day ago

• DIY monome Case from LEGOs, Live Performance in a Bathroom

  
  Create Digital Music — Authority: 585
  At the risk of becoming Create Digital Monomes, here are two things that make me very happy. For anyone who thinks it’s too hard to get hold of a genuine monome, or any of those of you who got the kit and haven’t built a proper case for it, this is for you. FYXDESIGN has posted a terrific tutorial enclosing the ...
  1 day ago

• Panelists for CNN/YouTube Climate Debate announced; CO2 Cube “Powered by YouTube” unveiled

  
  Affiliate Marketing | Affiliate Networks — Authority: 143
  The top questions will be posed to leaders during the debate, and also projected onto the CO2 Cube, a 3-story art installation now residing in the center of Copenhagen, built to represent one metric ton of carbon and powered by YouTube videos related to the climate crisis. Here’s an in-depth look at this stunning ...
  1 day ago

• osalt.com – directory of open source software

  
  Rarst.net — Authority: 125
  Open Source as ALTernative is a directory of software that is organized in form of matching open source and closed source apps by function . It aims to provide just as functional, but open source alternatives to common software. What it offers Site list software by category and in every there is two sections – ...
  1 day ago

• Gleebox: its like command-line surfing in Firefox or Chrome, but more awesome

  
  Download Squad — Authority: 742
  Filed under: Internet , Open Source , Browsers Heres a problem all of us face, but few of us acknowledge: the mouse . Its long been known that the humble mouse is a necessary, and sometimes much-loved evil. Its not actually the mouse itself , or the manipulation of it thats bad for us, but the moving of your ...
  1 day ago

• Hear Free Generative Music, in Archaic Twitter Haiku, made with SuperCollider

  
  Create Digital Music — Authority: 585
  How much can you do with a single line of musical code? Scoring music using archaic-looking (but relatively fundamental) audio techniques, a group of composers has produced a free album. Each track, produced in the open source, multi-platform audio tool SuperCollider, is produced via only 140 characters of code. The ...
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• The Windows 7 USB installer tool is back — and open source!

  
  ITsky — Authority: 150
  There was a bit of a furore over Microsoft’s ‘Windows 7 Netbook Installation tool’ back in November because they broke the cardinal rule this decade of software development: they used open-source code and didn’t declare it. Even worse, they modified open-source code and locked it up in proprietary, ...
  1 day ago

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